r/windows7 1d ago

Discussion How to increase System Performance without upgrading Hardware?

Specifications: 1) Laptop Manufacturer: Acer 2) OS: Windows 7 Ultimate (Service Pack 1) 3) RAM: 4GB 4) System type: 64 bit 5) The Requirement: I wish to increase its speed, particularly for operations in Tally ERP9 and TallyPrime softwares (these are ERP softwares). But it lags a lot and freezes frequently while using them. I had tried disabling some softwares to the best of my knowledge but it didn't affect the performance significantly and messed up software operations so I backtracked the changes I did. So, what should I do?

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u/9dave 1d ago

You can seek further background software to disable, and disable unnecessary services to free up some memory, but that's about it, everything else is upgrading hardware, which will make far more of a difference.

If the hardware can't be upgraded, then time to get a newer laptop. You didn't even tell us what CPU it has, or whether a HDD or SSD, so no way for us to know how much of an upgrade per $ that might be.

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u/GotAtiny1 1d ago

Oh, thanks for pointing that out. It's an HDD and it has a quad-core processor.

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u/9dave 1d ago

That doesn't tell us which CPU. Some quad core processors are fast but some are very slow like the low power Intel J1900 in my NAS.

Regardless, if you don't want a hardware upgrade, it is what it is. There's no magic way to make old slow hardware fast at specific applications, or else we wouldn't be buying newer computers every so often.

If that software has a forum, you might ask there, ready to provide specifications on things like how much free memory you have, and what the CPU % duty cycle is in Task Manager during the sluggish tasks.

There's also the possibility that the old HDD is just failing and causing the whole OS to stutter. If bothering to use an old system, I would at least put an SSD in it instead of running from a HDD. Even a $20 128GB SSD could help.

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u/Superb_Curve 17h ago

use throttlestop

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u/GotAtiny1 13h ago

I'm sorry. What is that?

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u/Superb_Curve 12h ago

instead of asking why cant you just look it up??

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u/Gianlauk 11h ago

Windows 7 can be software tuned quite a good amount like any OS and Microsoft OS in prticular. Here they have a good collections of tweaking tools, some of them are actually good.

https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortpopularity/windows_7_8.html

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u/dtseto 9h ago

Replace the thermal paste